{"product_id":"hope-against-hope-introduction-by-maria-stepanova","title":"Hope Against Hope: Introduction by Maria Stepanova","description":"\u003cb\u003eNadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of life with her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin's Soviet Union and one of the most moving testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1933, Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) wrote a satiric poem about Joseph Stalin, and the result of his defiance was arrest, interrogation, and exile, followed by re-arrest and death in a transit camp of the Siberian gulag in 1938. Osip's wife, Nadezhda (1899-1980), loyally accompanied him into exile in the Urals and later worked courageously to rescue the manuscripts of his poems and to discover the truth about his death. \u003ci\u003eHope Against Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is her harrowing account of their last years together and a window into Stalin's persecution of Russia's literary intelligentsia in the 1930s and beyond. But it is also a profoundly inspiring love story that relates their determination to keep both love and art alive in the most desperate circumstances. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After years of circulating privately in the Soviet Union, \u003ci\u003eHope Against Hope \u003c\/i\u003ewas smuggled out and published in the West in 1970 and has since achieved the status of a classic, not only for its essential testimony to a dramatic period of history but also for the enduring brilliance of Mandelstam's writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.\r","brand":"Nadezhda Mandelstam, Max Hayward, Maria Stepanova","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44444708274412,"sku":"9781101908365","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781101908365.jpg?v=1708848119","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/hope-against-hope-introduction-by-maria-stepanova","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}